Uniontown, AL
Uniontown wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Uniontown at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,522 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Uniontown at the 64th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Uniontown's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Uniontown: 64.4% of its 1,522 buildings, versus 35.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Uniontown against the rest of the country
Inside Alabama, Uniontown sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 61st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Uniontown ranks 12,280 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,072 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 425 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Uniontown's high rating (61st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 64.4% of Uniontown in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Uniontown's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Uniontown, see the exposure-zones guide.